For years I have fought my own nature, but no more.
Ever since I can remember, I have felt this way. It has always been just below the surface, but I have done my best to push it down. Way down.
Also ever since I can remember, when my ‘tendencies’ would become obvious, people would tell me that it is wrong. My parents, my teachers, and especially my priests would warn me, you can’t act that way, that the Bible says that it is wrong.
Now I know otherwise. I have been denying my true nature. There is a long-standing social stigma against people like me. We are put down and people do not like to associate with us. But the one thing I know is true is that I didn’t ask to be this way. It is not, I repeat NOT something I have chosen. It is who I am. Everyone in my life, for my 44 years, has forced me to deny it. To pretend. And I have listened to them, until now.
I was born this way, the way God made me. No more denying it. I will embrace it and finally be who I was made to be… >>> Continue Reading >>>
March 24, 2011 at 4:28 pm
This is SUCH a great article Pat! Molto bene 🙂
March 24, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Thanks Julie.
March 25, 2011 at 12:25 am
Christianity has fought against SLAVERY, because the bible says so…
Exodus 21: 20-21
"And if a man smite his SERVANT, or his maid, with a ROD, and he DIE under his hand; he shall be surely PUNISHED. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his MONEY."
Christianity has fought against WOMEN’s RIGHTS, because the bible says so….
First Timothy 2: 11-14
"Let the WOMAN LEARN in SILENCE with all SUBJECTION. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was NOT deceived, but the WOMAN being deceived was in the TRANSGRESSION."
Christianity has fought against HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS, for years and years because the bible says so…
We shouldn’t give up our fight against HOMOSEXUALITY. If we do more and more people will stop believing in the bible…..